What Girls Deliver Brings to Women Deliver: A Q&A with GIRL Center Director Karen Austrian
Karen Austrian, director of the Council’s GIRL Center, shares why she’s looking forward to Women Deliver 2026, what the Girls Deliver community brings to the conference, and how the GIRL Center ensures that girl-focused research remains part [...]
Women’s Empowerment and Contraception in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This article was originally published in N-IUSSP. Reprinted with permission. Traditionally, family structures have been authoritarian and age- and gender-stratified, with norms ensuring [...]
Policies Addressing Fertility Trends Require a Rights-based Approach
The global decline in fertility rates is a defining demographic trend of this era. Globally, governments are developing policies to address this decline with [...]
The Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research Implements an End-to-End Approach to Product Development
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare supports women on whether, when, and how many children they want to have throughout their 30+ year reproductive life [...]
From UNGA 79 Dialogue to COP29 Action: Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Solutions
As world leaders gather for COP29 in Azerbaijan, we reflect on a pivotal dialogue that took place during UNGA 2024 that brought together over [...]
Beyond Women: The Urgent Need to Address Adolescent Girls in the Care Economy
Jump to: En Français | En Español The care economy, which includes both paid and unpaid caregiving labor, is essential to our societies and [...]
Power, Voice, and Agency: Empowering Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Multiple Interventions for Evidence-Informed Contraceptive Decisions
This blog is part of a series in partnership with Population Council, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), and Population Services International (PSI), to recognize World Contraception [...]
Matching Design to Desire: Developing the Next Generation of Contraceptives
This blog is part of a series in partnership with Population Council, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), and Population Services International (PSI), to recognize World Contraception [...]